• Ooops@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    There is no “Lidl cloud”, that’s just the usual braindead framing.

    The Schwarz Group is the 4th biggest retailer by revenue globally, so having their own subsidiaries for waste management and recycling and for IT infrastructure is just natural.

    And yes, that’s how AWS happened, too. In-house IT infrastructure to support your retail operations is just more efficient thus cheaper in the long run.

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      18 hours ago

      As a dude working in an IT team for a retail related business, yep, that was our management’s thinking too.

      Outsourcing the IT from a different company was both more expensive AND terrible quality.